Field photograph·Csn3024
Aphrodite's Beach
Description
Foam from breaking waves runs across a wide, dark sandy beach in the foreground. A large pale rock mass rises on the left, with smaller rock stacks standing in the sea to the right. A printed caption with a verse is set on a card in the lower right corner of the mount.
English, as on the record
APHRODITE'S BEACH "I sing of Venus crown'd with gold, renown'd For faire: that Cyprus guards, by Neptune bound. Her in soft foam mild-breathing Zephyr bore On murmuring waves unto that fruitful shore." Homer, Hymn to Aphrodite
English, as on the record
APHRODITE'S BEACH "I sing of Venus crown'd with gold, renown'd For faire: that Cyprus guards, by Neptune bound. Her in soft foam mild-breathing Zephyr bore On murmuring waves unto that fruitful shore." Homer, Hymn to Aphrodite
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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)